it seems like all it takes is one down vote from a power-user and you are done. I used to get great results from reddit-- but over the past 2 months I can't seem to get anything on the homepage. November 22, 2006

Do people really put "reformed black hat hacker" on their resume? I just have a hard time believing that the real BH's would ever: 1) admit to it on paperwork 2) Try to use it as a job skill (unless of course apply for a network security consultant job) September 29, 2006

At least from the schools I've seen in the midwest the programs are light years behind. They will teach you fundamentals of managing someone else's fortune 500 company as a bean counter-- and that is what you want go for it but some how I don't suspect that is what you want to do. September 19, 2006

I don't work for 103bees.com
I installed the software about a week ago on one of my sites and so far I don't really see any advantage to it over, say, Googles Analytics software.
For right now the software is free-- I am sure in a few months they will hit me up for 24.99 a month or something.
Really the best feature I have seen (for me at least) is:
Top keywords
Most used keywords in search phrases that drove traffic to 'http://domainhere.co'
It disects the entire phrase such as "Rand SEOmoz SEO" would be added to the keyword phrase sheet like
Rand 1 hit
SEOMOZ 1 hit
SEO 1 hit
for that particular result-- and I am sure you can find great patterns over time and apparently offers suggestions on other phrases to target.
I don't know-- I played around with hittail.com a while back and they seem to have a lot of the same basic features, it just seems 103bees is cleaner (though I hate the bloody navigation).
July 25, 2006

I don't recall saying I was surprised or implying it at all, pianist.
And that is exactly the point I was trying to make:
I spent all my time on external research that I didn't bother to spend the time properly examing interal needs, I try never to need to the same lesson twice. =) July 19, 2006

Rand,
in the realm of stupid mistakes made when dealing with a new or prospective client. One of my very first clients was a small company making this ridiculously cool little gadget that would have easily caught on-- we were in the perfect place to help them market and brand (off/online)
Everything was going great until we made the recommendation that they look into changing the products name. (There were a number of other established products with VERY similiar names)
BAM. over, lost the client. "Thank you for your initial research...blahblahblah..."
It happens to everyone I suppose.
(by the way, the product flopped-- they brought marketing "in house" yet never got an "in house" marketer.)
July 19, 2006